[Bug 262444] kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde & ~/.kde4 removed)

David Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Wed Jan 12 20:04:54 GMT 2011


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262444





--- Comment #6 from David Rankin <drankinatty suddenlinkmail com>  2011-01-12 21:04:47 ---
    Best I can tell, sometime in the kde 4.5.3 time frame is when this problem
first appeared. I searched in vain trying to find out why in the heck kde4
loaded the kde3 kicker along with it's plasma panel and then proceeded to load
the kde3 background and decorations (and dialogs in some cases) Repeated tests
removing both ~/.kde and ~/.kde4 made no difference. Removing items from
~/.config/autostart made no difference.

    Removing /var/tmp/kdecache-user showed very unexpected behavior. If kde3
was installed, starting kde4 (with a new user account) would create both:

 /var/tmp/kdecache-<user>/ksyscoca
 /var/tmp/kdecache-<user>/ksyscoca4

and then for some reason kde4 appears to be loading settings for both. Removing
kde3 & deleting /var/tmp/kdecache-<user> and then restarting kde4 was the only
way to get kde4 to load on Arch without pulling in the kde3 settings.

        Remarkably, after removing kde3 and deleting /var/tmp/kdecache-<user>
and then restarting kde4 --> no ksycoca is created. Without kde3 installed,
kde4 only creates ksyscoca4, as expected. The primary issue remains the same,
why is kde4 creating and using /var/tmp/kdecache-<user>/ksyscoca if kde3 is
left installed?


    I don't know kde3 or kde4 well enough to know where or why this behavior
occurred, but I have confirmed this behavior on 8 boxes, both i686 and x86_64.

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